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Buccinator   Listen
noun
Buccinator  n.  (Anat.) A muscle of the cheek; so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.






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"Buccinator" Quotes from Famous Books



... the eyeball rolls upwards and outwards. The lower lid droops, the patient cannot wink, and the conjunctiva therefore becomes dry, and is irritated by exposure to cold and dust. The tears run over the cheek. From paralysis of the buccinator muscle there is inability to whistle or to puff out the cheeks and food collects between the cheek and the gums. The orbicularis oris being also paralysed, the patient is unable to show his upper teeth, and the labial consonants are pronounced indistinctly. The sense of taste ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles



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